I hate how nobody is talking about how ingenious the Kiramman archive system is!! Using translucent sheets and magnification to display images like that is a great way to keep things technologically consistent while still having a computery looking thing. Also the fact that the Kirammans basically have exclusive access to Arcane's version of Wikipedia is too funny
@_Zaid that's so awesome!! I didn't know it was a callback to a real life technology. thanks for telling me about it, I have something new to research now!
The fact that her mother built that for the citizens of the undercity because she believes they have the right to breath and her daughter using that as a weapon.... this show is going to destroy me
Cait taking the Silco route but rather than one room, she gonna make areas of Zaun into the tox ridden hell that Silco used to breath in. And the fact she using her mother innovative and right for Zaunites to breath fresh air as literal gas weaponry is utterly immoral, down right horrible, Cait went down the damm deep end.
It’s such a great parallel to her mother and Caitlyn’s mindset, with the grief and pain still present. And how Act 1 ends. We’re reall,y going to see this whole other side of her! Shit iss going to be amazing
@@sheenie8897I'm starting to wonder if that's actually the case. Perhaps Cait will go down as a villainous character whose story is that of a descent into brutality and hatred, similar to someone like Aatrox or Urgot. Given that Viktor has gone from a cliche robot villain to a techno-messiah figure, anything is possible at this point.
They could have had Caitlyn say "I found this Grey thingy so I think we could-" and a bunch of boring exposition but instead they do this. Fucking art man 🔥🔥
@@admiralpepper6933 This wasn't really show, don't tell tho. Montage is the only exception to the ''Show, Don't Tell'' rule because they aren't actually showing character moments, they are skipping through them - we didn't see anything about their dynamic as a group, we didn't see Vi's reservations about the use of toxic gas throughout the entire Undercity, we were told they were doing operations Its one hell of a cool exposition, but its still exposition
I agree like I was rocking out to this song until I watched it back and realized that basically they were releasing the arcane equivalent to Mustard gas😨
Presenting them as a faceless monster in the first scene we see them use the gray is such a clever choice. Having the reveal that this terrifying creature was just Cait and her group, right after seeing Jinx’s cute dynamic with Sevika and Isha really makes you wonder if you were rooting for the right characters…I wish people talked more about these sort of details.
In any other show, this scene would be 5 minutes long with most basic telling exposition, But Arcane established goals, stakes, obstacles for this episode in just under 2 minutes with nothing, but pure visual storytelling. Wonderful stuff
Yep. I bet in another show they would've thrown a blueprint over a table and explained the whole plan. But not in arcane. In arcane, they take things to a whole nother level
Arcane set the bar very high in terms of scene direction, writing, all kinds, is enough, this is the next level of animation that every series should aspire to, I would like to see in the future how other series are influenced over time, similar to what happened with movies from the 60s/70 and influenced the most famous sagas of the 80s.
@@AstraVoid The grey is factory smog... but this is Runeterra, magic is an intrinsic part of it. What may have started as simply smog, could very well become... something else, maybe it "mutated", maybe ambient magic transformed it, or even it became the vessel of some entity. The options are numerous, it will still be smog to a certain extent, but deep into it... who knows what may prowl.
Is there a video or explanation on this ? Is this the one where Zain people are praying to her as Viktor walks by or the mural behind jinx in the sevika smeech fight ??
@@selenophile5256 that Air/Wind goddess that is seen in those moments that’s the one we are referring to. People pf Zaun really believed it was a goddess of some sort from the heavens when it’s subtly reveled at the start before Jinx vs Vi vs Cait in the third episode that it turned out to be Cassandra this whole time. Something so well done as it the whole center of the episode yet so subtly well placed.
@@TheSwanqueenAndTheEldricth and in the lore of janna, she existed because of the powerful belief of the people in zaun so she made a comeback when the people of zaun needed her again.
This, plus Renata Glasc's voice line, "Where were you when we needed you most, Janna?!" makes me wonder if Janna was ever real in the first place, or just a legend similar to Braum.
The fact that Caitlyn's eyes are a shade that's more similar to Jinx at 1:42 symbolising how she's slowly becoming more like her (doing bad things because of the loss of an important figure in her life) is absolutely amazing whether intentional or not
@@Caliif eeeeeh, I mean The second season *is* rushed, but the music sequences kinda help alleviate it to a degree actually by packing a lot, but still being fun and, in their case, appropriately fast-paced. It's the hectic transitions between actual scenes and story beats that are the real problem.
@@AthenaTennosN looking back at the entire season it definitly was rushed, especially act 3, I still think stuff like the raids work as a montage but other things really didn't get the attention they deserve
It's really interesting to see cait's desicions here. In the first season she was actually really good hearthed in a cast of mostly moraly grey characters. Really cool writing.
1:25 The fact that this is the only confirmation of what happened to Madame Margot and Chross shows how unimportant the Chem Baron turf war was in the end.
Piltover: Exploits the people of Zaun, doesn't care about basic human living conditions, take all the riches from the people below and give nothing in return FOR DECADES Zaun: Give troubles for a couple of weeks Piltover: Welp, looks like it's Time-To-Commit-War-Crimes-O'Clock
> doesn't care about basic human living conditions Except they did, a little, the ventilation system is an example of that. >take all the riches from the people below What riches? These people never had any riches >Zaun: Give troubles for a couple of weeks Rampant mass murder and terror attacks on leadership and law enforcement is not "troubles", it's a declaration of war, and they got what they asked.
@@Skozerny Dude, I'm sorry for being an ass, but please go and rewatch the show. But this time, pay attention to what is being said, instead of only looking at the pretty pictures.
@@SkozernyThe ventilation system came up only becuz the smog got so bad it was eating through peoples skin (shown in the kiraman archives) zaun’s air is so bad becuz piltovwr exploits them and steal what resources they have Piltover’s industrialism with no regard to zaun has killed far more than zaun has shown in arcane and they wouldnt have cared until zaun rebelled I mean did u watch the show?
This kinda shows how Cait is becoming more like Jinx. I get her grieve and anger from her mothers death but her mom wouldn’t be happy with her doing this?
The SWAT team in question: -The deuteragonist -Her girlfriend -A random drunk the girlfriend found -Two cops who happened to be in the room when the plan was made
@@dabiga2315 The random drunk is hinted to be an (ex)senior enforcer so that is at least there. The two cops are yeah just random recruits that probably vi recommended.
The moment the drop hits and Vi destroys the wall, god damnit i jumped out of my chair, one of the coolest moments in cinema for me for a long time, just brutal
I effing love that Caitlyn's songs basically went from "I Can't Hear It Now" to "Heavy Is the Crown" and landed on "Hellfire." Their musical storytelling is gorgeous 🔥
"She's hurting! It's reasonable of her to crack down on them!" Caitlyn ironically staining her mother's memory by using her benevolent contributions to gas innocents in the crossfire:
I was kinda sheelshocked with all the developments, so i didn't react immediately, but in the back of my mind there was this nagging feeling... "is this really how you want to use your mother's legacy, Cait?". I know she will come out of it... but these are some actions that will never go away.
Admittedly we don't know how many if any innocents were actually caught in the crossfire. For the way its shown it makes it look like these are surgical and brutal strikes on the chem barons, although maybe Act 2 will show us the actual collateral of Caitlyn's use of the grey.
Is she? They tried to reason with them multiple times even voted to cooperate and then they attacked the city multiple times. Not just jinx but the barons as well
Oh my god Caitlyn’s development is like a beautiful firework display domino setup heading for a car crash but I can’t look away! In the intro her shadow shows a crown of spikes which I heard is a reference to Macbeth and I just 💔💔💔
People keep talking about cait here but… this is a song about Vi I think. She’s the one making friends with her demons, she’s betrayed everything she’s believed in and now she’s acting like the people who took her parents from her and powder.
Jinx sided with Silco the one who kiddnaped, tortured and experimented on Vander, send people to beat Vi and wanted to kill her brothers, also the one who responsible of her family death. And still Jinx picked him over Vi, so payback.
@@xCoatlicuex Vi literally abandoned her and blamed her for everything, Silco was the only one left for Jinx what are you talking about? it's literally Vi's fault
@xCoatlicuex Powder: literally begging Vi not to abandon her (after Vi punched her and blamed her for everything) you: wow can't believe she'd pick Silco over Vi she's clearly the problem here
It's crazy how much power their family have and I underestimated their use in the council and how their properties are in the piltover and zaun map. It's scary how Caitlyn used it for revenge.
I like how Caitlin’s mother explains to us the purpose of the vent system. Then instead of wasting minutes *telling* us the plan, they show us. Not just the plan in action, but also medical diagrams on what prolonged exposure to the Grey can do. It was this scene that pretty much put me on Zaun’s side.
This Honestly make me values Catlyn more, she was able to use the environment and her own resourses to do what a whole army can't. Piltover was about to invade and go full war on Zaun but Catlyn put a stop on it and went with just a small team to solve the issues.
Honestly I am disapointed we didn't get more detailed animations of the strike team fighting through the undercity... They really just rushed through it with a montage slide show.
Well it’s exposition that doesn’t really need contextualizing compared to the rest of the story. This is a quick, efficient, and honestly badass way of telling us about their mission down there. And it’s all stunningly drawn. Rather than spending 5 minutes talking about the plan and what they will do, they just showed us in a fun way. Also this songs a fucking banger.
@@ActionjXD It does need contextualizing. In a matter of one episode, we see Cait and Vi get together and immediately break it off. Then the next episode we see Maddie in bed with Cait. Not to mention how the three new characters that formed the strike team weren't characterized like Season One's minor characters were. The only character that had some development was Maddie and that's only because she slept with Cait? How did they end up together? What even was Maddie's motive? Was she a Noxian spy or just a traitor who wanted to get back at Cait for getting back with Vi? How about "Loris"? Do you even remember his name or do you have to search it up every time to know who he is? Why did he even decide to join the strike team in the first place? Yeah sure, he's the quiet introverted gentle giant, but so was Claggor, and I sure remember who Claggor and Milo are. Although they were minor characters they received good treatment for the minor characters they were. And the Vastayan fish guy? Not a single word I remembered him speak. Is he mute like Aysha or just quiet? Why did only Aysha get the good character development that Claggor and Milo did despite dying before these other three characters? What a big rushed disappointment of a season.
@ first off, yes i remember loris, and the vastayans name is scar. Yeah they are minor characters and the reason they don’t get as much screen time is due to their role in the story, the reason Claggor and Milo got more screen time is due to their role and importance to powder, even after she kills everyone she loves with the monkey bomb, they still haunt her, they become part of her schizophrenia. Scar didn’t get much screen time since he’s leading the firelights, his presence wasn’t needed nor important to the events of the story. Sure he shows up at the end of the fight but only due to ekkos influence, and while loris isn’t as an important character I do agree some insight to him would be beneficial but I also see why they didn’t. Because in show making and animation they only have so much time. Would rather have seen loris backstory over something like the bond of Isha and Jinx? Or viktor uncovering warwicks psyche? While they could have benefitted from more backstory, it would just have meant the removal of another scene or something more important. You can’t have it both ways
cus they were specifically gassing Silco's crime areas stupid Vi absolutely hates Silco's guts too and wants his influences gone cuz he destroyed the undercity
I might be wrong, but, despite this montage being in episode 3, I think some of this happened before the start of episode 2, since we see smeech's men witness the immediate aftermath of their attack on Margot's base, with the team still there _(after which Cait and Smeech seemingly cut a deal for Jinx)_ and we know Margot was alive after that. They don't seem to have encountered any of the other barons aside from Smeech despite attacking Margot's and Chross's headquarters, so maybe they weren't there? Atleast Margot and Chross didn't seem to riled up about the gray or enforcers during their meeting with Sevika. Maybe Chross's place got attacked after the meeting, and him with it, but it seems atleast Margot's still kicking
@@Ruby-Doc Its implied that they where captured, in the opening Caitlyn shoots the net launcher instead of a normal shot before showing Chross and Margot.
@loxtrop_c7143 If you play league she uses her E if you dont you can go back to the scene and you will notice Caitlyn's gun has 2 barrels the one on the top launches bullets the one underneath launches a net to capture people
I love this scene, my jaw dropped when I saw it. But I can't help but think that we've missed a lot thanks to these kinds of recaps. How long did it take from what we saw in this scene to Jinx being found?
X2, it make it seems as it was done in a day Its peak as fuck tho, and they may have done it in a day too because having the gray is the ultimate weapon in zaun, even jinx was running away from it
![Fever 333 - “Hellfire” (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Visualizer]](/img/n.gif)
"Your free trial of breathing has expired"
Lol thats so true
😂
And given the gray is basically how I saw it is basically naturally made mustard gas😨
When the credit card declines
@@DianaDxD looking at the damage to the skin, eyes, mucous membranes, green color, and the fact that this is industrial pollution it's Chlorine Gas.
"The people of the underground deserve the breathe" is such a hard line
That reminds me of episode 1 of season 1..When Vi mention to Powder when she was younger about the air not being so toxic on the upside
Caitlyn: No.
Caitlyn:" .... breathe poison gas!"
Caitlyn putting on a gas mask: Do they really, though?
I hate how nobody is talking about how ingenious the Kiramman archive system is!! Using translucent sheets and magnification to display images like that is a great way to keep things technologically consistent while still having a computery looking thing. Also the fact that the Kirammans basically have exclusive access to Arcane's version of Wikipedia is too funny
It's microfilm. You used to be able to go to public libraries and look up information on them with similar machines.
@_Zaid that's so awesome!! I didn't know it was a callback to a real life technology. thanks for telling me about it, I have something new to research now!
Technically you probably can find microfilms in big public libraries. In the french BNF, there is still a lot of thoses machines and old microfilms.
The fact that her mother built that for the citizens of the undercity because she believes they have the right to breath and her daughter using that as a weapon....
this show is going to destroy me
Cait taking the Silco route but rather than one room, she gonna make areas of Zaun into the tox ridden hell that Silco used to breath in. And the fact she using her mother innovative and right for Zaunites to breath fresh air as literal gas weaponry is utterly immoral, down right horrible, Cait went down the damm deep end.
It’s such a great parallel to her mother and Caitlyn’s mindset, with the grief and pain still present. And how Act 1 ends. We’re reall,y going to see this whole other side of her! Shit iss going to be amazing
this is what vengance does to u. at least we know that caitlyn will come around eventually
I think what she was thinking was "All these good things my mother did to the under city just for her to die under the hand of their people"
@@sheenie8897I'm starting to wonder if that's actually the case. Perhaps Cait will go down as a villainous character whose story is that of a descent into brutality and hatred, similar to someone like Aatrox or Urgot. Given that Viktor has gone from a cliche robot villain to a techno-messiah figure, anything is possible at this point.
They could have had Caitlyn say "I found this Grey thingy so I think we could-" and a bunch of boring exposition but instead they do this.
Fucking art man 🔥🔥
Why tell when you can _SHOW_ :)
@@admiralpepper6933 This wasn't really show, don't tell tho. Montage is the only exception to the ''Show, Don't Tell'' rule because they aren't actually showing character moments, they are skipping through them - we didn't see anything about their dynamic as a group, we didn't see Vi's reservations about the use of toxic gas throughout the entire Undercity, we were told they were doing operations
Its one hell of a cool exposition, but its still exposition
@@felipecouto1102 agreed, we can all concur that Link and Yee are fantastic writers without the excess sucky sucky.
I agree like I was rocking out to this song until I watched it back and realized that basically they were releasing the arcane equivalent to Mustard gas😨
The reveal that they were the monster all along was sooooo well done
I thought it was the same creature Singed found in ep 1, they really tricked us there
Well, there's certainly someone among them becoming one
I thought it was Fiddlesticks for a moment.
In which episode we're talking ?
Presenting them as a faceless monster in the first scene we see them use the gray is such a clever choice. Having the reveal that this terrifying creature was just Cait and her group, right after seeing Jinx’s cute dynamic with Sevika and Isha really makes you wonder if you were rooting for the right characters…I wish people talked more about these sort of details.
I was in shock when I first saw thissss
Same. Like the fight last between Jinx and Ekko. I love special Animation compared with a Banger soundtrack
Yo
Arcane isn't just a show...it's a spiritual experience
Whoahh, why did i have the same thought.... can you tell me more of it 😢❤
In any other show, this scene would be 5 minutes long with most basic telling exposition, But Arcane established goals, stakes, obstacles for this episode in just under 2 minutes with nothing, but pure visual storytelling. Wonderful stuff
Yep. I bet in another show they would've thrown a blueprint over a table and explained the whole plan. But not in arcane. In arcane, they take things to a whole nother level
Arcane set the bar very high in terms of scene direction, writing, all kinds, is enough, this is the next level of animation that every series should aspire to, I would like to see in the future how other series are influenced over time, similar to what happened with movies from the 60s/70 and influenced the most famous sagas of the 80s.
I liked how its not actually a monster, just smog
in lore it is also a monster
Source? I find nothing about this in lore
@cowboy5826 I'm not sure I heard necrit say it and janna are at odds with each other maybe it's in janna lore
@@AstraVoid The grey is factory smog... but this is Runeterra, magic is an intrinsic part of it.
What may have started as simply smog, could very well become... something else, maybe it "mutated", maybe ambient magic transformed it, or even it became the vessel of some entity.
The options are numerous, it will still be smog to a certain extent, but deep into it... who knows what may prowl.
@@AstraVoid I'm pretty sure in lore it's just factory smog but in Arcane they made it some type of monster that's alive which is a fun change
As a lore fan when I saw the first mural of janna, then realizing it was cassandra why people of zaun can breathe and not janna is so fucking cool.
Mother was mothering so hard that people thought she was being god
Is there a video or explanation on this ?
Is this the one where Zain people are praying to her as Viktor walks by or the mural behind jinx in the sevika smeech fight ??
@@selenophile5256 that Air/Wind goddess that is seen in those moments that’s the one we are referring to. People pf Zaun really believed it was a goddess of some sort from the heavens when it’s subtly reveled at the start before Jinx vs Vi vs Cait in the third episode that it turned out to be Cassandra this whole time. Something so well done as it the whole center of the episode yet so subtly well placed.
@@TheSwanqueenAndTheEldricth and in the lore of janna, she existed because of the powerful belief of the people in zaun so she made a comeback when the people of zaun needed her again.
This, plus Renata Glasc's voice line, "Where were you when we needed you most, Janna?!" makes me wonder if Janna was ever real in the first place, or just a legend similar to Braum.
1:42
Just notice Caitlyn’s eye being pink, almost mirroring Jinx.
Maybe she touched her eye after using the toilet without washing her hands and now she has to go on this big raid and hope no one notices.
@@owenlealPLEASEEEE 😭😭😭😭
@@owenlealTop 10 details you may have missed while watching Arcane
The fact that Caitlyn's eyes are a shade that's more similar to Jinx at 1:42 symbolising how she's slowly becoming more like her (doing bad things because of the loss of an important figure in her life) is absolutely amazing whether intentional or not
Such openings are why I love this series, Quick, efficient and fun way to show us exposition
I absolutely love the way it does storytelling!
I've seen people say it feels rushed but I definitly prefer this over seeing 5 different raids to take out the chembarons
@@Caliif eeeeeh, I mean
The second season *is* rushed, but the music sequences kinda help alleviate it to a degree actually by packing a lot, but still being fun and, in their case, appropriately fast-paced. It's the hectic transitions between actual scenes and story beats that are the real problem.
@@AthenaTennosN looking back at the entire season it definitly was rushed, especially act 3, I still think stuff like the raids work as a montage but other things really didn't get the attention they deserve
Kiramman's sophisticated, low-recording-quality voice goes crazy hard as an intro. I want to hear more songs that do that.
Loving so much her way of coping, she literally said “if i cant have my mom, y’all wont have your lungs”
It's really interesting to see cait's desicions here. In the first season she was actually really good hearthed in a cast of mostly moraly grey characters. Really cool writing.
I feel like this part really was her turning point to villainess
UGHH I LOVE WHEN THE BEAT DROPS AND VI BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL 😍😍😍
"The people of thw underground deserve to breathe" IT IN😭😭😭
1:25 The fact that this is the only confirmation of what happened to Madame Margot and Chross shows how unimportant the Chem Baron turf war was in the end.
This season was created by archangels, for real. This stuff is the best i ever seen. Almost crying by just how good that is.
Cait be like: 'Piltover has the right to defend itself.'
It does
@@Teencat anime PFP opinion denied
@@Teencat You didn't get the reference did you? 💀
@@Teencat P&Z ; I&P parallels
@@TeencatDon't understand reference to atrocities or certain country?
this scene is so underrated i dont see anyone talk about it!!! the music is so good and the comic book art style!!! aaaaah!!!
Piltover: Exploits the people of Zaun, doesn't care about basic human living conditions, take all the riches from the people below and give nothing in return FOR DECADES
Zaun: Give troubles for a couple of weeks
Piltover: Welp, looks like it's Time-To-Commit-War-Crimes-O'Clock
Sounds like a real-life scenario currently happening.
> doesn't care about basic human living conditions
Except they did, a little, the ventilation system is an example of that.
>take all the riches from the people below
What riches? These people never had any riches
>Zaun: Give troubles for a couple of weeks
Rampant mass murder and terror attacks on leadership and law enforcement is not "troubles", it's a declaration of war, and they got what they asked.
@@Skozerny Dude, I'm sorry for being an ass, but please go and rewatch the show. But this time, pay attention to what is being said, instead of only looking at the pretty pictures.
@KarlHeinzRom No u.
@@SkozernyThe ventilation system came up only becuz the smog got so bad it was eating through peoples skin (shown in the kiraman archives)
zaun’s air is so bad becuz piltovwr exploits them and steal what resources they have
Piltover’s industrialism with no regard to zaun has killed far more than zaun has shown in arcane and they wouldnt have cared until zaun rebelled
I mean did u watch the show?
This is so fucking peak
I can't stop watching this on repeat
This kinda shows how Cait is becoming more like Jinx. I get her grieve and anger from her mothers death but her mom wouldn’t be happy with her doing this?
Maybe, she was compassive but also belives on justice and bring a mass murder terrorist to justice could have been seen as a valid goal.
The SWAT team from Hell.
Literally fallen angels.
The SWAT team in question:
-The deuteragonist
-Her girlfriend
-A random drunk the girlfriend found
-Two cops who happened to be in the room when the plan was made
@@dabiga2315 The random drunk is hinted to be an (ex)senior enforcer so that is at least there. The two cops are yeah just random recruits that probably vi recommended.
@@kondorkristof8524 my goat Steb.
This went so unbelievably hard oh my god
the comic book style is SO COOL oh my god
The moment the drop hits and Vi destroys the wall, god damnit i jumped out of my chair, one of the coolest moments in cinema for me for a long time, just brutal
Not expecting a hard drop I rewinded so quick to get the full experience 😂 1:19 is such a cold background
I just noticed that Cait actually captured the Chembaron by shooting the net not killing them with bullets.
wow good catch, it was very abstract
was looking for this. this sequence is absolutely awesome
this reminded me of the firelight intro from season 1
The doom vibe with the femal electronic vibes describing the grey !*
RIP AND TEAR CAIT
Police brutality….THE MUSICAL
I effing love that Caitlyn's songs basically went from "I Can't Hear It Now" to "Heavy Is the Crown" and landed on "Hellfire." Their musical storytelling is gorgeous 🔥
Police brutality never went this hard
This squad is best part of first 3 episodes
life changing intro
i love how they made it so comic like artstyle, arcane never misses!!
"She's hurting! It's reasonable of her to crack down on them!"
Caitlyn ironically staining her mother's memory by using her benevolent contributions to gas innocents in the crossfire:
I was kinda sheelshocked with all the developments, so i didn't react immediately, but in the back of my mind there was this nagging feeling... "is this really how you want to use your mother's legacy, Cait?".
I know she will come out of it... but these are some actions that will never go away.
Admittedly we don't know how many if any innocents were actually caught in the crossfire. For the way its shown it makes it look like these are surgical and brutal strikes on the chem barons, although maybe Act 2 will show us the actual collateral of Caitlyn's use of the grey.
tbh its the bare minimum that her mother did
@@kas8ia That bare minimum is like saying water is bare minimum.
Is she? They tried to reason with them multiple times even voted to cooperate and then they attacked the city multiple times. Not just jinx but the barons as well
This could have been an entire season, but they condensed it into one short amazing montage.
thank you, was searching for it
life changing experience perhaps
"It's just factory smog trapped underground- _nothing more, nothing less."_
-Smeech
Oh my god Caitlyn’s development is like a beautiful firework display domino setup heading for a car crash but I can’t look away! In the intro her shadow shows a crown of spikes which I heard is a reference to Macbeth and I just 💔💔💔
"Officers please stop I can't breathe" ahh moment 🗣
"The people of the undercity deserve to breathe"
Caitlyn: nu-uh
My mother ain’t breathing no more, so neither are you
Arcane season 2 songs so far were absolutely amazing!!!
People keep talking about cait here but… this is a song about Vi I think. She’s the one making friends with her demons, she’s betrayed everything she’s believed in and now she’s acting like the people who took her parents from her and powder.
the worst part was definitely the first encounter jinx had with them in the smog
Jinx sided with Silco the one who kiddnaped, tortured and experimented on Vander, send people to beat Vi and wanted to kill her brothers, also the one who responsible of her family death. And still Jinx picked him over Vi, so payback.
@@xCoatlicuex Vi literally abandoned her and blamed her for everything, Silco was the only one left for Jinx what are you talking about? it's literally Vi's fault
@xCoatlicuex Powder: literally begging Vi not to abandon her (after Vi punched her and blamed her for everything)
you: wow can't believe she'd pick Silco over Vi she's clearly the problem here
Alongside the sevika smeech fight this is my favorite scene from arcane s2 act 1
I love the artstyle of this sequence. I wonder if it has a name
god this show is incredible, i keep coming back to this clip
Whoever made this scene must've binged Darktide for abit
God I missed arcane
That white beret makes her look so badass.
the chills i get when caits mum talks about how the underground deserves to breathe, and then everything afterwards phewww
I like to think that the face in The gray is meant so symbolize fiddlesticks, since people were so scared of it their fear evoked his image
Gotta love some good old chemical warfare.
Police brutality looks so damn good
This is so cool but sad and crazy at the same time, Using her mother invention as a biological weapon, making Vi go againts her own people
This show really is just peak in every way possible
Arcane is something else man. What other show is doing things like this? Spiderverse level shit right here
DAMNNNNNN
It's crazy how much power their family have and I underestimated their use in the council and how their properties are in the piltover and zaun map. It's scary how Caitlyn used it for revenge.
Watching this as a Caitlyn stan hurts so much
This is absolutely NOT where I expected the Fever 333 song to be used
This song would go so hard if the scene wasnt police brutalizing people and doing what is essentially a war crime.
I like how Caitlin’s mother explains to us the purpose of the vent system. Then instead of wasting minutes *telling* us the plan, they show us.
Not just the plan in action, but also medical diagrams on what prolonged exposure to the Grey can do.
It was this scene that pretty much put me on Zaun’s side.
I would agreed but we really need to get rid of the chembarons, Ekko would be a better leader for the undercity though
This Honestly make me values Catlyn more, she was able to use the environment and her own resourses to do what a whole army can't. Piltover was about to invade and go full war on Zaun but Catlyn put a stop on it and went with just a small team to solve the issues.
this goes stupid hard 🔥🔥
Damnnnn this episode was spiced!
Honestly I am disapointed we didn't get more detailed animations of the strike team fighting through the undercity...
They really just rushed through it with a montage slide show.
Most of this season is just montage slide shows
Well it’s exposition that doesn’t really need contextualizing compared to the rest of the story. This is a quick, efficient, and honestly badass way of telling us about their mission down there. And it’s all stunningly drawn. Rather than spending 5 minutes talking about the plan and what they will do, they just showed us in a fun way. Also this songs a fucking banger.
@@ActionjXD It does need contextualizing. In a matter of one episode, we see Cait and Vi get together and immediately break it off. Then the next episode we see Maddie in bed with Cait. Not to mention how the three new characters that formed the strike team weren't characterized like Season One's minor characters were.
The only character that had some development was Maddie and that's only because she slept with Cait? How did they end up together? What even was Maddie's motive? Was she a Noxian spy or just a traitor who wanted to get back at Cait for getting back with Vi?
How about "Loris"? Do you even remember his name or do you have to search it up every time to know who he is? Why did he even decide to join the strike team in the first place? Yeah sure, he's the quiet introverted gentle giant, but so was Claggor, and I sure remember who Claggor and Milo are. Although they were minor characters they received good treatment for the minor characters they were.
And the Vastayan fish guy? Not a single word I remembered him speak. Is he mute like Aysha or just quiet? Why did only Aysha get the good character development that Claggor and Milo did despite dying before these other three characters?
What a big rushed disappointment of a season.
@ first off, yes i remember loris, and the vastayans name is scar. Yeah they are minor characters and the reason they don’t get as much screen time is due to their role in the story, the reason Claggor and Milo got more screen time is due to their role and importance to powder, even after she kills everyone she loves with the monkey bomb, they still haunt her, they become part of her schizophrenia. Scar didn’t get much screen time since he’s leading the firelights, his presence wasn’t needed nor important to the events of the story. Sure he shows up at the end of the fight but only due to ekkos influence, and while loris isn’t as an important character I do agree some insight to him would be beneficial but I also see why they didn’t. Because in show making and animation they only have so much time. Would rather have seen loris backstory over something like the bond of Isha and Jinx? Or viktor uncovering warwicks psyche? While they could have benefitted from more backstory, it would just have meant the removal of another scene or something more important. You can’t have it both ways
Love the artstyle, hate the writing
Vi just casually being okay with GASING THE UNDERCITY does not make sense whatsoever
I don't think it's fatal or has permanent damage on short use
VI feels guilty because her sister killed her girlfriend mother, so she is trying to justify the whole situation.
It’s not chlorine gas or anything, it’s more like a mild irritant that police use in riots. Just, everywhere
cus they were specifically gassing Silco's crime areas stupid
Vi absolutely hates Silco's guts too and wants his influences gone cuz he destroyed the undercity
Love how in the final they use a weaponised version of the grey as a cover for the bomb on viks' shell
The beat drop is so good. The whole opening is so hardcore 🎉
Me and the boys on Friday night
Caitlyn: oh they’re gonna breath all right
my fav ost from season 2
Fortiche Porduction coocked again, and oh boy they are master chef
This was an epic opening. 🔥
Police brutality goes brrrrr
Ah yeah, famous Germa... Piltover gas attack
Cait stepped on the gas alright 😂
Favorite scene of season 2 so far
Human suffering? Join the glorious evolution
The best scene
Holy fucking shit
wait, does this scene imply they KILLED THE CHEM BARONS?
Holy crap, that'd be bonkers.
I might be wrong, but, despite this montage being in episode 3, I think some of this happened before the start of episode 2, since we see smeech's men witness the immediate aftermath of their attack on Margot's base, with the team still there _(after which Cait and Smeech seemingly cut a deal for Jinx)_ and we know Margot was alive after that. They don't seem to have encountered any of the other barons aside from Smeech despite attacking Margot's and Chross's headquarters, so maybe they weren't there? Atleast Margot and Chross didn't seem to riled up about the gray or enforcers during their meeting with Sevika. Maybe Chross's place got attacked after the meeting, and him with it, but it seems atleast Margot's still kicking
Nope she used the net launcher in the gun on them.
@@Ruby-Doc Its implied that they where captured, in the opening Caitlyn shoots the net launcher instead of a normal shot before showing Chross and Margot.
@@Strix2031What is the net launcher?
@loxtrop_c7143 If you play league she uses her E if you dont you can go back to the scene and you will notice Caitlyn's gun has 2 barrels the one on the top launches bullets the one underneath launches a net to capture people
I love this scene, my jaw dropped when I saw it.
But I can't help but think that we've missed a lot thanks to these kinds of recaps. How long did it take from what we saw in this scene to Jinx being found?
X2, it make it seems as it was done in a day
Its peak as fuck tho, and they may have done it in a day too because having the gray is the ultimate weapon in zaun, even jinx was running away from it
Not too long it seems, Loris was still injured from the explosion at the end
Good evening, 47.
Thank youuu
Episode 2 : Wtf is that monster in the smoke? Wait... Nahh no way
Episode 3 : Oooh...oh... oh
Next act comes out in 4 hours but as of now this is my favorite scene in season 2.
This was so fucking sick!
hits so Suicide squad 😅
I wonder if the grey is the same stuff Silco used during the chembaron meeting
This was just epic!
so fucking EPIC